The Chessmen Quotes

“The drive down to Uig passed in a painful blur. Great fat raindrops spat on his windscreen like tears spilled for the dead.”
― Peter May, The Chessmen

“happened to us, Donald?’ He thought about his own question. ‘I mean, all that hope and expectation. When we were just kids and life was nothing but potential. Everything we wanted to be, everything we could have been.’ And he added quickly, before Donald could speak, ‘And don’t talk to me about God’s grand plan. It’ll only make me more pissed off with Him than I already am.”
― Peter May, The Chessmen